The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

Book #7 of 2020 – The ten loves of Mr Nishino – By Harumi Kawakami
3 out of 5 stars.

This book by Kawakami is told from the ten different perspectives of women who fell in love with Mr Nishino. Through these perspectives we learn about different facets of the title characters personality.

This is the third book I have read by Kawakami, but unfortunately this was the one I enjoyed least. There are just too many perspectives and I feel if the book was centered around just a few character you would get to know them better overall. In fact that is exactly what occurred in the previous two Nawakami books (Strange weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift store) which I read and I adored.

I still enjoyed this book abut I feel it had potential to be much more than it is, it feels to me more like a short story collection which all revolve around the titular character and though it was okay, I just never felt much strong connection to the characters because of the constant shifting angles.